Love this car

[Coralsnake]

https://dyler.com/cars/ford/mustang-for-sale/1966/19832/ford-mustang-coupe-1966-beige-for-sale

[Royce Peterson]

Agree. It just says "Drive Me".

[68gtcoupe]

Agree. It just says "Drive Me".

+1.  People dig these cars when they show up at shows or cruise nights.  Appreciate it for what it is. 

[honker]

Thanks for posting, I would just leave it as it is, maybe a mechanical refresh of engine internals.

Isn't that Stacey Keach, who was Sgt. Stedenko in Cheech & Chong's Up in Smoke    ?

[Coralsnake]

Have to like that six cylinder smog too

[FL SAAC]

It has potential

[Side-Oilers]

Well, at least we know by the license frame that the guy's other car is a Porsche.

The black-and-yellow CA plate's letter sequence is typically more correct for a later car than a '66.  Unless it wasn't first sold until early 1967. 

(That delayed-sale is entirely possible, considering it's a notchback with 6-cyl and automatic. It probably clung to the dealer lot like a barnacle until someone like "Mary Richards" came along to love it.)

[propayne]

^^^ she drove a lime green '69 or '70 notchback if memory serves -

- Phillip

[67 GT350]

How about this one?

https://binghamton.craigslist.org/cto/d/1966-mustang-gt/7173274680.html

Real GT

[Side-Oilers]

^^^ she drove a lime green '69 or '70 notchback if memory serves -

- Phillip

Yes, a '70, but I believe it was white.

[propayne]

^^^ well, memory partially served me 

- Phillip

[honker]

propayne your memory is good  getting a bit off topic here ! but hey folks that's entertainment !

Mike

https://www.curbsideclassic.com/features/cc-tv-the-cars-of-the-mary-tyler-moore-show/

[98SVT - was 06GT]

The black-and-yellow CA plate's letter sequence is typically more correct for a later car than a '66.  Unless it wasn't first sold until early 1967.

My 66 delivered in February had SRL 393. My sisters 68 GT/CS she bought new in April 69 was ZAZ 235. Letter sequences can be all over the map. They were sent to DMV offices in batches and some ran through them faster than others. The black plate replaced the yellow ones and everyone had to take their plates to DMV and swap them for the new ones. Which is why after only 3 years they were already getting to T. Once they ran through all of them in 1969 the reversed the letters and numbers 123 SAM and started over. When those got done the finally added another number 1 SAM 123.

[Side-Oilers]

The black-and-yellow CA plate's letter sequence is typically more correct for a later car than a '66.  Unless it wasn't first sold until early 1967.

My 66 delivered in February had SRL 393. My sisters 68 GT/CS she bought new in April 69 was ZAZ 235. Letter sequences can be all over the map. They were sent to DMV offices in batches and some ran through them faster than others. The black plate replaced the yellow ones and everyone had to take their plates to DMV and swap them for the new ones. Which is why after only 3 years they were already getting to T. Once they ran through all of them in 1969 the reversed the letters and numbers 123 SAM and started over. When those got done the finally added another number 1 SAM 123.

Yes, I concur.  I grew up in SoCal (I think I remember your writing somewhere that you did too) and always knew the plate numbers of all the cars in my neighborhood.  A pal of mine who's even more of a CA license plate fanatic than I am, also agrees that each local DMVs got stacks of plates that they handed out in the order who whomever was standing in line at the time...like nowadays.  But, did you know that the DMV offices located closest to Sacramento got (at least initially, in '63) the lower alphabet first letter?   "A"s and "B"s were allotted to offices closest to Sacramento.   True.

In '63, as you correctly noted, all existing 1956 yellow plates were replaced by the '63 black/yellow versions, but the cars sold (or brought into CA) in 1963 thru late '69 simply received the top of the local DMV stack of plates.  It is thus rather easy to correlate letters to the year the car was sold, or brought into CA. 

In my experience, a '66 car sold new in CA could have anything between Q - S for a first letter.  1967 was typically T through U, '68 was V through X, while Y and Z were typically cars sold or brought into the state in 1969 (like your sister's GT/CS.)  My dad bought a new 1970 Brand X car in late Sept '69 and received the new  blue and yellow plate with "ADA" as the alpha sequence.   

The confusion for many sellers claiming an "original black and yellow" plate on a car they've not owned since new, is that (as mentioned above) cars that came into CA as used cars would get the latest plate-alphabetical available.  Same with any later series of plates. 

Likewise it's funny to see a seller claiming that (for example) a plate starting in "C" is original to their '67 car.  No way. Someone bought the plate
somewhere and registered it to the car.  Not original.   

One minor correction to your recollection:  The 1956 yellow/black plates did not necessarily have to be turned in to the DMV in order to get the 1963 series.  Neither of my parents' cars at the time had their '56 plates turned in. I know because I put them on my Schwinn.    We lived in Playa del Rey at the time (it's at the beach near LAX, for those not familiar) and received black and yellow plates with "FYJ."

That's probably more than anyone would ever want to know about CA license plates.   

[Side-Oilers]

propayne your memory is good  getting a bit off topic here ! but hey folks that's entertainment !

Mike

https://www.curbsideclassic.com/features/cc-tv-the-cars-of-the-mary-tyler-moore-show/

Judging by the screen-grab photos in that link, Mary's humble Mustang had been on the wrecker's hook at least once. (The bent-up front fascia is the giveaway to me.)